Captain America: Civil War spoilers follow:

The third installment of Captain America could easily have been another installment of The Avengers. Besides the returning members: Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, War Machine, Hawkeye, Vision, and Scarlet Witch — there were also newbies: Spider-Man and Black Panther. Bucky Barnes and Sharon Carter, from the previous Cap movies, were thrown into the fold. Even Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Paul Rudd) was able to join his fellow superheroes. And though Hulk and Thor weren’t present, they still had a presence, as Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (who got a promotion from General to Secretary of State) asked the team of their whereabouts.

Full as the roster was, the writers had intended for even more Avengers.

“There was one not very good draft where Hank Pym [Michael Douglas] shows up,” said Christopher Markus. Co-writer, Stephen McFeely, added, “I forgot about that. We won’t speculate on what Hank Pym did, but he wasn’t as helpful as he needed to be.”

“In the case of Wasp,” McFeely continued, “[we left her out because] it was really kind of ruining a good story point for her in her own movie……Those drafts existed in a world where they hadn’t shot a frame of Ant-Man…..They existed in a world where Edgar Wright is still directing that movie.”

You can see Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) put on the costume she received at the end credits of Ant-Man, when Ant-Man and The Wasp flies into theaters on July 6th, 2018. There’s also rumor of her mother, Wasp Sr, as the plot will call for the title heroes to rescue her from the Quantum Realm.

Source: Mashable